How to: use donor-implementer staff secondments to enhance operational effectiveness

Development programming needs to be managed adaptively to ensure that strategies remain relevant and impactful. This necessitates continually learning, experimenting and changing. Operating in this way is enabled by better relationships between donors and implementers, as changes to activities, workplans, targets, and budgets have contractual implications. This how-to note highlights two experiences of staff secondment between donor and implementing organisations with respect to impacts on the donor-implementer relationship. Based on this, we ask if and when staff secondments might be used as a tool to improve that relationship.